Month: January 2014

We held our first book club meetings for my 3rd grade son and my 6th grade daughter now that fall soccer is over and the kids all have a little more free time. PickyKidPix‘s 6th grade book club met at her friend Caroline’s house and my son hosted his 3rd grade book club at our…

Food stamps are far from an extravagant benefit. The average allocation is $1.40 per person per meal. (Try it some time.) from Rolling Stone The Republicans’ War on the Poor My mom friend Stella has convinced me to try the Food Stamp challenge. It’s not about losing weight. It’s about bringing attention to Food Stamps…

It’s January and the holiday season is behind us. Phew! I find that I appreciate coupons more than ever. But the one thing I’ve learned about coupons over the years is that you only really save money when you are buying something you really need and will actually use! Now that my two girls are…

At the end of second grade my son started learning his multiplication facts along with a few division facts. He had been using a free math site his 2nd grade teacher recommended called Xtra Math and after finishing addition and subtraction facts, moved on to multiplication. Though the site was effective in teaching him math…

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr image from Wikipedia To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 20th, I thought I would compile my previous posts on MLK day and the Civil Rights Movement. I hope these lists will be helpful if…

Please welcome my guest blogger, Anna Olswanger. I “met” her when I read a review of Greenhorn and her picture book stopped me in my tracks. It’s powerful story about the Holocaust that really reverberated. I literally could not stop thinking about that little boy and his tin box for days. I added it immediately to my…

Valarie Budayr of Jump Into a Book and I are getting excited for January 27th to roll around so we can celebrate multicultural children’s books along with all of you and many wonderful parenting and children’s book bloggers! So far, more than two dozen bloggers have signed up to help us celebrate diversity in children’s…

It could be that because I am getting excited for Multicultural Children’s Book Day: Celebrating Diversity in Children’s Literature on January 27th 2014 , I really got excited about the Marisol McDonald picture book series. I grew up in Southern California but have been living outside Boston for the past 15 years. When I went…